Revelation 16:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Behold, I am going to come like a thief! Blessed (happy, to be envied) is he who stays awake (alert) and who guards his clothes, so that he may not be naked and [have the shame of being] seen exposed!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Look! I’m coming like a thief! Favored are those who stay awake and clothed so that they don’t go around naked and exposed to shame.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ "Behold, I arrive like a thief. Blessed is he who is vigilant and who preserves his vestment, lest he walk naked and they see his disgrace."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Revelation 16:15 Cross References

Exodus 32:25

And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose; for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies:

Isaiah 47:3

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will accept no man.

Ezekiel 16:37

therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Hosea 2:3

lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst;

Habakkuk 2:15

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that addest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Matthew 25:13

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Mark 14:38

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luke 21:36

But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Acts 20:31

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

2 Corinthians 5:3

if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

1 Thessalonians 5:6

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Revelation 22:7

And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.

Revelation 3:11

I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

Revelation 3:18

I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.